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He mixed the two, and emptied the tumbler at a draught. "My head's queer," he whispered to himself. He passed his handkerchief over his face. "How infernally hot it is to-night!" He made for the door. It was open, and plainly visible and yet, he failed to find his way to it. Twice, he found himself trying to walk through the wall, on either side. The third time, he got out, and reached the garden.
How infernally tight my nerves were getting. The sound had come from a mere piece of paper blown by the wind a rough salt wind which now blew in from the ocean as though impatient of all this stillness. From below came a lapping and slapping of waves. Above me a derrick mast growled and whined as it rocked.
"I can't, major!" cried the excited boy. "Hang it! you're an old soldier don't you know how infernally uncomfortable it is to stand still and be shot at?" "I do, my boy," said the major, with considerable emphasis, and a far-away look at nothing in particular. "Well, that'll be my fix as long as I stay here and keep quiet," replied the lieutenant. "Wait a week, then," persisted the major.
"Manage it your own way," said he; "do whatever you think best; but you must see that I've been badly used infernally cruelly treated, and you ought to do the best you can for me. Here am I, giving away, as I may say, my own property to a young shopkeeper, and upon my soul you ought to make him pay something for it; upon my soul you ought, for it's only fair!"
"They brought me into this job," Mihul said, "because they figured you and I would get along together just fine." It was really infernally bad luck! Mihul was going to be the least easy of wardens to get away from ... particularly in time to catch a liner tomorrow night. Mihul knew her much too well. "Like to come along and meet your facsimile now?" Mihul inquired. She grinned.
She was so infernally full of water that she steered like a haystack; and as any one in the waist got half-drowned every minute, long spells at the pumps weren't popular. We couldn't make our easting a bit, and the old man kept saying that we should never get through the Straits. That was by way of preparation, but I understood what he was up to and said nothing. At last he put it to me squarely.
He is an uninteresting man. "I can't," he said, "I've got to go to the B -s'; confounded nuisance, it will be infernally dull." "Why go?" I asked. "I really don't know," he replied. A little later B met me, and asked me to dine with him on Monday. "I can't," I answered, "some friends are coming to us that evening. It's a duty dinner, you know the sort of thing."
I should not have done it if I had thought he had a real chance with her. Life is very difficult; especially for the well-intentioned. Jervaise shrugged his shoulders. "It's all so infernally complicated by this affair of Brenda's," he said. Yet it has seemed simple enough to him, I reflected, an hour before.
She and I drove out by chance, to hear Moore doing his stunt in the circus-ground. That began it. But now, it seems, she's got some devil's influence over Moore's gang. She's told 'em something queer about me." "She's told 'em something that makes things infernally uncomfortable for other people," said Choate bluntly.
David laughed peculiarly. "He's infernally uncomfortably right in most of the things he charges and proposes. I don't like to think about it." He shut his teeth together. "I WON'T think about it," he muttered. "No you'd better stick to your own road, Davy," said Jane with irritating mockery. "You were born to be thoroughly conventional and respectable. As a reformer you're ideal.
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